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The Stolen Lake
by Aiken, Joan Marriot, Pat
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- FINE/AS NEW/ND
- ISBN 10
- 0140315055
- ISBN 13
- 9780140315059
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1983* Publisher: Puffin* Binding and cover condition: Soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. Minimal chips to spine & shelf wear to corners. No creases to spine or hinge. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No Annotations or Inscriptions, no marks. Very slight colouration to pages throughout. VG+* Illustrations: B/w line drawings within text throughout by Pat Marriott.* Pages: 265 pp. text. vii pp. Advertisements & blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- Dido Twite, heroine of Black Hearts in Battersea and Nightbirds on Nantucket, is on her wildest adventure yet. On her way back to London aboard the Thrush, Dido and crew are summoned to the aid of the tyrannical queen of New Cumbria. Her island is an infernal place where birds carry off men and fish eat human flesh. The queen is greatly distressed because a neighbouring king has stolen her lake. Dido faces fire, flood, wild beasts and, ultimately, threat of execution in order to get the lake back. Is she equal to the challenge? A rich mixture of legend, fantasy, humour and pure snowballing adventure.* This is a NEAR FINE UN-USED copy with minimal shelf wear and light tanning reducing it to VG+*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3174
- Title
- The Stolen Lake
- Author
- Aiken, Joan Marriot, Pat
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0140315055
- ISBN 13
- 9780140315059
- Publisher
- Puffin Books
- Place of Publication
- Harmondsworth. UK 272
- This edition first published
- 1983
- Size
- 18 x 11.2 x 1.5 cm
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